Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.